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Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Incarceration Rate Grows in First Half of 1991 by Incarceration Rate Grows In First Half Of 1991 The nation's state and federal prison population grew by 30,149 inmates, just under four percent, during the first half of1991 to reach a record 804,524 men and women as of June 30, the …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Prison Population Up, Escapes Down by According to a poll conducted by Corrections Compendium magazine, there were fewer escapes in 1990 than in 1989. In 1989, there were 7,816 escapes reported from 48 states (1.33%). In 1990, those same systems reported 7,244 escapes (1.11%) - a decrease of 572 at …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Executions Report Issued by Eleven states executed 23 people last year, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced on September 29th. The Bureau said as of December 31, 1990, there were 2,356 people being held on death row in 34 states. Between 1976, when the U.S. Supreme …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
The Criminalization of Poverty by Sabina Virgo The Criminalization Of Poverty By Sabina Virgo Sabina Virgo is an activist in the Los Angeles area. The following is an edited version of a speech given in L.A. on International Human Rights Day, December 8, 1990.) An anonymous poet in the 1700s …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
New York Prisons Profiled by A prisoners' advocacy group in New York City on September 27 released a profile of the state and city inmate population and found a pattern of minority offenders being increasingly locked up for nonviolent crimes. The Correctional Association of New York said there are more …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge by Patricia Horn By Patricia Horn [The following is an edited version of an article reprinted from the September, 1991, issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. It was edited by Ed Mead.] "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida by Mandatory Sentencing Flops In Florida Florida offers a classic example of how mandatory sentencing laws and large-scale incarceration of drug offenders can produce an unbalanced correctional system and possibly reduce public safety, according a new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Violent Crime Rate Up, Again by There was a sharp increase in violent crimes according to the final statistics for 1990 gathered by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The FBI reported murder and rape rates increased 9 percent last year, and robbery and aggravated assault rose 11 percent. …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Percentage of Black Prisoners Grows by Percentage Of Black Prisoners Grows In mid-July, 1991, the U.S. Department of Justice released a study titled Race of Prisoners Admitted to State and Federal Institutions, 1926-86. The results of the study are no big surprise. In 1926 78% of state and federal prisoners …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Group Cites Shift from Education to Prisons by Group Cites Shift From Education To Prisons The criminal justice system is "stealing" dollars away from public education, according to a study by the national Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), an Alexandria, Virginia-based criminal justice research organization. "We're trading textbooks for …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
The Rich Get Richer by The Rich Get Richer... The North American working class is now ninth in the world in terms of wages and benefits, and continues to decline. At this point the earnings of the U.S. working class have been driven back to what they were in the …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Be a Rat or Else! by Be A Rat Or Else! This all started back in November 1986, a couple of weeks after the decision in Toussaint v. McCarthy 801 F.2d 1080 (9 Cir. 1986) [prisoners can be placed on administrative segregation status for little or no reason]. Myself and …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Drug Profits Fund Prison by The Justice Department Asset Forfeiture Fund has collected more than $1.5 billion in the last six years, including $460 million in cash and property in 1990, a 28 percent increase over 1989, according to U.S. Attorney General Thornburgh. Since the forfeiture fund began in 1985, …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
A Lesson From Japan by Dan Pens The Japanese may arguably have the most effective justice system in the Western World. A glance at the accompanying graphs will readily verify this statement. So what are the Japanese doing right? If one were to believe proponents of popular trends in the …
Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings by Prisoners Entitled To Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings Four prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, IL., were accused of murdering another prisoner. They were infracted and found "guilty" of the murder at a prison disciplinary hearing. Prior to the hearing …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Violent Crime Up 10% in 1990 by Violent Crime Up 10% In 1990 Last issue we published an article titled "Which Shell Is The Pea Under?" in which we argued against the U.S. government's claim that there exists a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Reality of Sexual Victimization Obscured by "Predator" Label by Patricia Novotny (Reprint of letter to the Seattle Times) Thomas Shapley in his column on sexual predators (Focus, April 7) does a disservice to the sexually abused and sexually assaulted. He reminds me of the man in the Mae West movie. …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
U.S. Prison Population Grew 8.2% in 1990 by Washington State Has Second Highest (15.4%) Increase The number of state and federal prisoners grew 8.2 percent last year, the U.S. Justice Departments Bureau of justice Statistics (BJS) announced on May 15. According to the Bureau, the 1990 growth rate was more …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Crime and Revolution, Prisons Don't Work by Crime And Revolution, Prisons Don't Work Edited from MIM notes According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. government, the United States is number one in the world - number one in imprisonment. More people are in prison and jail in …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
New Report Cites Higher Rates of HIV Infection Among Inmates by The virus that causes AIDS may be more common among prison and jail inmates, especially women, than previously thought, according to a new study based on testing of nearly 11,000 inmates entering 10 prisons and jails between mid-1988 and …
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